Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing: Privacy Valuation, Network Effect, and Profit Maximization

In spite of the pronounced benefit brought by crowdsensing, a user would not participate in sensing without adequate incentive, indicating that effective incentive design plays a critical role in making crowdsensing a reality. In this work, we examine the impact of two conflicting factors on incentives for users' participation: 1) the concern about privacy leakage and 2) the (positive) network effect from many sensing participants. The former...